And a treat when you use the non scary version of this recipe throughout the year- oven baked chicken tenders.

Do take it easy on yourself. Once the hands are acquired, you can prep the fingers the day before and quickly roast, just before serving.

The honey mustard sauce can be made anytime. It keeps in the fridge for weeks. It is good as a salad dressing or on all kinds of cooked veggies too.

We used grainy mustard here. You can use any kind, even yellow. That would look way cool on a black plate.

Roasted Witches Fingers with Honey Mustard Sauce

Serves 6

metric measures

Fingers

1 ¼ pound boneless, skinless chicken breast

600 gm

2 tablespoons oil

30 ml

1 cup tortilla chip crumbs, see note below

150 gm

2 tablespoons dried onion flakes

10 gm

2 teaspoons paprika

4 gm

½ teaspoon thyme

1 gm

¼ teaspoon black pepper

.5 gm

15 black olives, sliced in half the long way

15

Sauce

½ cup honey

120 ml

½ cup mustard

120 ml

Butterfly the chicken breasts so you have six portions. “Butterfly” means to slice the breasts horizontally in half. The halves will be thin and open like two pages in a book. Cut each breast through, separating the pages.

Cut each butterflied breast so they look like hands with fingers. Butterflies, breasts, pages, hands, fingers. Are you still with me? Good thing there is a picture.

If you are making this on any given weeknight, cut the fingers all the way through. So no scary hands.

My costume is still undecided. I have been a witch (not good this year), Marge Simpson with big blue hair (not good this year), a giant black spider (bug juice-also not good this year). What are you dressing as this Halloween?